American Old Time Song Lyrics: 13 Must We Leave The Old Home, Mother
Theater, Music-Hall, Nostalgic, Irish & Historic Old Songs, Volume 13
Must We Leave the Old Home, Mother?
Copyright. 1883. by W. F. Shaw.
Must we leave the old home, mother.
Where we've lived for many years?
We can never find another
Place on earth that is so dear.
Father's dead, and he is sleeping
In the churchyard o'er the way;
Mother, dear, why are you weeping?
Oh, must we leave the old home, say?
Chorus.
Must we leave the old home, mother?
Tell me, won't you, must we roam?
We can never find another
Place on earth like the old home.
Must we leave the old home, mother,
Since we dearly love it so?
Should we never find another,
It would break our hearts, I know.
Humble though it be and lowly,
Can we turn from it away?
With memories so holy,
Oh, must we leave the old home, say?-Chorus
Must we leave the old home, mother.
And forsake it all in all;
Never clinging to each other
By the hearth in the hall?
Will there linger strange faces
By the fireside, night and day,
And the old-time's pleasant places-
Oh, must we leave them, mother, say?-Chorus.